Rice Lake Regional Airport (IATA: RIE, ICAO: KRPD, FAA LID: RPD) is a city owned public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) southwest of the central business district of Rice Lake, a city in Barron County, Wisconsin, United States. The airport is situated in the village of Cameron. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017-2021, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.
Opened in 1995, it was named Carl's Field for Carl Rindlisbacher, the longtime manager of Arrowhead field, one of Rice Lake's previous airports.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RPD by the FAA and RIE by the IATA.
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Rice Lake Regional Airport covers an area of 750 acres (300 ha) at an elevation of 1,109 feet (338 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 is 6,700 by 100 feet (2,042 x 30 m) and ILS equipped; 13/31 is 3,500 by 75 feet (1,067 x 23 m).
RICE LAKE (RPD) VOR/DME, 110.0 MHz, is located on field.
Rice Lake Air Center is the fixed-base operator.
For the 12-month period ending September 17, 2014, the airport had 27,650 aircraft operations, an average of 76 per day: 90% general aviation, 10% air taxi and <1% military. In March 2017, there were 39 aircraft based at this airport: 32 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 2 jet and 1 helicopter.
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